Jul-21-2011, 07:27 AM (UTC)
Yes, it certainly does appear to differ if one is willing rather than unwilling? I'm pretty sure even Fitz said that he still didn't fully understand Forging, despite having seen Verity carve his dragon etc.
So much more to add on all that, including Black Rolf/Old Blood's take on Forging...
When Pilkrop placed his memories into the memory stone cubes in Aslevjal, he certainly seemed to me to simply be storing 'memories' and this was a deliberate/intentional action on his part in that he chose what he wanted to place in it, when he wanted to place it there. The stone didn't seem (?) to want to 'draw' anything further from him.
Fool, too, willingly inserted specific memories into the gift that he gave to Fitz at the end of FF (and I think he may have also given over something, a piece of music, to one of Pilkrop's cubes?).
So much more to add on all that, including Black Rolf/Old Blood's take on Forging...
When Pilkrop placed his memories into the memory stone cubes in Aslevjal, he certainly seemed to me to simply be storing 'memories' and this was a deliberate/intentional action on his part in that he chose what he wanted to place in it, when he wanted to place it there. The stone didn't seem (?) to want to 'draw' anything further from him.
Fool, too, willingly inserted specific memories into the gift that he gave to Fitz at the end of FF (and I think he may have also given over something, a piece of music, to one of Pilkrop's cubes?).
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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